Card-holder



March 6v, Q 1 RICKLI v I CARD-HOLDER Filed June l0, 1959 F/GJ .2'

A Jen'rf t @Aar/es Ric/YL' WMM/w H'u rmey United States Patent O 3,023,522 CARD-HOLDER Charles J. Rickli, 32 Grand Rue, Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland Filed June 10, 1959, Ser. No. 819,474 Claims priority, application Switzerland June 12, 1958 2 Claims. (Cl. 40-1.5)

My invention has for its object a card-holder to be secured to a garment. According to my invention, said card-holder is provided on its rear surface with a tongue adapted to engage a button-hole in said garment.

The accompanying drawings illustrate by way of example two embodiments of the card-holder according to the invention.

FIGS. 1 and 2 are plan views of the rear surface of the rst embodiment and of the second embodiment respectively.

The card-holders illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 are constituted by transparent sheaths obtained through the folding of a sheet of transparent plastic material, the ange forming edges 1 and 3 of which are superposed at their rear surface. A tongue or strap 2 is fitted pivotally to ilange 3 through one of its ends by means of a rivet 8; said tongue carries at its other end one of the components 9 of a separable snap fastener of which the other component 10 is secured to the same outer surface of the sheath. It is apparent that in the embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2, the rear surface of the sheath is provided with three such snap fastener components 10, whereby it is possible to secure the card-holder in a substantially horizontal manner, whatever may be the slope of the button hole of the garment which is to be engaged by the tongue 2. This is obtained readily by associating the component 9 snap fastener with any one of the three cooperating components 10.

In order to facilitate the introduction of a card into these card-holders, their ange 3 is provided with lateral recesses 12.

The card-holders illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 are provided furthermore with a safety pin 6 for the case Where the wearer might prefer securing the card-holder to the garment through the agency of such a safety pin.

Such card-holders are of particular interest for meetings or the like, in order to facilitate personal contacts.

What I claim is:

1. A card-holder to be secured to a garment provided with a button hole, comprising a flat transparent sheath slidingly engageable by a card to be seen through the front surface of said sheath, a normally at strap adapted to engage a button hole in the garment, pivot means secured to a point of the rear surface of the shea-th one end of said strap being pivotally secured on said pivot means, and a snap fastener including a primary component rigid with the other end of said strap and a plurality of secondary components adapted to be selectively engaged by and separated from said primary component and rigid with dilerent points of the rear surface of the sheath and lying at equal distances from said point of the rear surface of the sheath.

2. A card holder to be secured to a garment provided with a button hole, comprising a flat sheath slidingly engageable by a card to be seen through the front surface of said sheath, a rst primary push button component rigid with the sheath, a series of further primary push button components rigid with points of said sheath at the same predetermined distance from the location on the latter of the rst push button component, an independent normally at tongue including, with a spacing equal to said predetermined distance, two secondary push button components adapted to engage respectively the first mentioned primary push button component and selectively one of the further primary push button components. l

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,348,627 Holland et al May 9, I1944 2,618,086 Komorous Nov. 18, 1952 2,930,154 Rosen Mar. 29, 1960 FOREIGN PATENTS 112,324 England Jan. 9, 1918 560,623 Great Britain Apr. 12, 1944 

